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Lunchroom Downtown (Closed Permanently) Formerly: Coffeeshop Downton

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Historically significant lunch

A breakfast-and-lunch spot that is something of an Amsterdam institution, having started life in 1970 as the city's first openly gay café (and a very early espresso bar), with no blacked-out windows or tucked away basements. Gay pioneers Fokke IJsinga and Frits Blaauw called it Coffeeshop Downtown. In 1979 they sold it to Frans Monsma and Guus Silverentand, entrpreneurs with gay ideas of their own, who then made their mark expanding on the gay life and culture of the Reguliersdwarsstr...

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Hours
Mon to Wed 10am—7pm
Thu to Sat 10am—9pm
Sun 10am—7pm



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